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Yilin Press

Also known as: 译林出版社 凤凰出版传媒股份有限公司, 译林出版社 凤凰出版传媒集团, 译林出版, 凤凰传媒出版集团 译林出版社

Founded
1988
Country / Region
China
Notable books
Mourning the BreastsThe Interpretation of CulturesUnder the Medieval Starry Sky

936 books 617 authors

About the publisher

Yilin Press focuses mainly on translated foreign literature. Its current catalogue of 318 titles covers common categories such as mystery and detective fiction, foreign literature, world classics, biography, and social novels. Representative books include The Complete Sherlock Holmes 2: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, To the Lighthouse, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, and Lives of the Artists: Michelangelo, often presented in bilingual or English-language editions that serve both original-text reading and language learning. Its author resources include foreign writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and Romain Rolland, as well as translators including Li Jiazhen, Gao Fen, and Ma Ye. The catalogue also includes Chinese works such as Li Jieren's Ripples Across Stagnant Water. The press shows a concentrated publishing strength in foreign classics and bilingual readers; given limited public information, this overview is based only on catalogue data.

Published (936)

The Second Ring cover
The Second Ring Harlan Coben Yilin Press · 2025 Harlan Coben is the first American author to win all three major international mystery awards—the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony. His works have b…
The Complete Sherlock Holmes 2: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.8
The Complete Sherlock Holmes 2: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2 Volumes) Arthur Conan Doyle / 李家真 Yilin Press · 2024 This is the second volume of The Complete Sherlock Holmes (seven volumes in total). A collection of short stories, it contains twelve celebrated and b…
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Rating 4.7
Sumerian Civilization 拱玉书 Yilin Press · 2024 This book is a comprehensive study of Sumerian civilization by Gong Yushu, professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, and is reg…
Biography of Beethoven: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.6
Biography of Beethoven: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Romain Rolland / Fu Lei Yilin Press · 2024 This bilingual Chinese-English edition of Beethoven: The Man and the Artist presents Romain Rolland's celebrated biography of Beethoven. From multiple…
Li Jieren's Great River Novel Trilogy (4 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.6
Li Jieren's Great River Novel Trilogy (4 Volumes) Li Jieren Yilin Press · 2024 The novel Sishui Weilan (Ripples in Stagnant Water) was written in 1935 and caused a sensation upon publication; Guo Moruo even called Li Jieren "Chin…
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Rating 4.6
Nostromo Joseph Conrad / An Ning (Wang Ping) Yilin Press · 2024 Nostromo has been chosen by many literary critics as Conrad's outstanding and greatest work. In this novel, the author employs a nonlinear, multi-pers…
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Rating 4.6
Einstein's War: How Relativity Conquered the World Matthew Stanley Yilin Press · 2024 Everyone knows relativity, but few know that its journey from proposal to global acceptance coincided with World War I and depended on cooperation acr…
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Rating 4.6
The Field of Life and Death Xiao Hong Yilin Press · 2024 The Field of Life and Death is a novella by Xiao Hong. Readers who love her writing should not miss it. In the story, the author describes the humble …
A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.5
A Good Man Is Hard to Find: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition 弗兰纳里·奥康纳 / 谢晗曦 Yilin Press · 2024 A bilingual Chinese-English edition, *A Good Man Is Hard to Find* is a short story collection by American novelist Flannery O'Connor, gathering ten st…
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Rating 4.4
The Death of Virgil 赫尔曼·布洛赫 Yilin Press · 2024 This is a novel written by the Austrian writer Hermann Broch during his years of exile and his most important life's work. It draws on the legend of t…
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Rating 4.4
A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism Andrzej Walicki Yilin Press · 2024 This book is the magnum opus of the Polish historian Andrzej Walicki; the English edition was first published between 1979 and 1980 and is regarded as…
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Rating 4.4
Under Western Eyes Joseph Conrad / An Ning (Wang Ping) Yilin Press · 2024 Under Western Eyes is a classic work by Joseph Conrad. Set in St. Petersburg and Geneva at the turn of the twentieth century, the novel exposes and co…
The Great Nation: A History of France from Louis XV to Napoleon cover
Rating 4.3
The Great Nation: A History of France from Louis XV to Napoleon Colin Jones Yilin Press · 2024 The eighteenth century has often been called "the French century." When Louis XIV died, he left his successor a powerful, stable, and well-ordered abs…
The Road to Science Fiction, Volume 4: From Now to Forever cover
Rating 4.3
The Road to Science Fiction, Volume 4: From Now to Forever 詹姆斯·冈恩 / Zhao Jiaming / 何锐 / 胡晓诗 Yilin Press · 2024 The Road to Science Fiction is the magnum opus of American science fiction writer, editor and scholar James Gunn (1923– ). Since publication it has lo…
Seton's Animal Stories: Chinese-English Bilingual (2 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.2
Seton's Animal Stories: Chinese-English Bilingual (2 Volumes) 欧内斯特·汤普森·西顿 / 方华文 Yilin Press · 2024 Wild Animals I Have Known is a collection of short animal stories by the Canadian author Ernest Thompson Seton. First published in 1898, the book pion…
Swallows and Amazons: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.2
Swallows and Amazons: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition Arthur Ransome / 徐彬 / 翟雨 / 宋彦卓 Yilin Press · 2024 Swallows and Amazons is a classic children's adventure novel. When summer comes, John, Susan, Titty and Roger finally get their parents' permission to…
The Hundred-Year Adventures of a Wooden Doll: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition cover
Rating 4.2
The Hundred-Year Adventures of a Wooden Doll: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition 雷切尔·菲尔德 / 行莱 Yilin Press · 2024 A bilingual Chinese-English edition, The Hundred Dresses? No—The Story of a Wooden Doll is a captivating and imaginative fairy-tale adventure. It won …
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Rating 4.2
Flaubert's Parrot Julian Barnes Yilin Press · 2024 In two of Flaubert's former homes there stands a stuffed parrot, but which one is the bird that once sat on the writer's desk while he wrote A Simple …
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Rating 4.2
Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Yilin Press · 2024 Purple Hibiscus is the debut novel of the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, published in English in 2003. It was shortlisted for the 2004 Oran…
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Rating 4.2
The Water-Babies 查尔斯·金斯利 Yilin Press · 2024 The Water-Babies is a children's fantasy novel written by the 19th-century English author and clergyman Charles Kingsley for his young son and publish…

Frequent authors

He Feng (27)Lao She (25)Wang Shouren (20)W. Somerset Maugham (15)Jules Verne (14)Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (13)Zhu Shenghao (12)Jane Austen (12)William Shakespeare (12)Arthur Conan Doyle (12)Rao Xueman (11)方华文 (10)